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As I get older, I train harder and harder, because I have this insatiable hunger to win. I never stop to think whether I love (or hate) swimming. That never comes into it. All I know is that I need to win, and swimming fulfils that need. I
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“Monsters had fangs, but that was why lionesses were given claws.”
― Lore
― Lore
“Me? I just wonder how I’ll move my one hundred and twenty-six pounds of cells through the warped space and time ahead.”
― Cracked Pots
― Cracked Pots
“Four years earlier, Weissmuller had been the first to break the one-minute barrier in the 100-meter freestyle. (That he would later go on to play Tarzan in MGM’s blockbuster films and become an international movie star of the era is also worthy of note.)”
― Why We Swim
― Why We Swim
“all I knew and all I wanted to know, the only thing that made me feel like all my limbs were where they should be, and my heart was beating at the correct pace. “It feels like freedom,” I managed, stumbling over my words. Behind me, someone snickered, and I felt my face redden. But the princess just nodded. “I thought it might,” she said.”
― Phaedra
― Phaedra
“Scared is how you see the spear coming for your eye. Scared is how you choose where and when to strike.”
― Ithaca
― Ithaca
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